{"id":7892,"date":"2010-06-13T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T20:06:51","slug":"good-riddance-clark-hoyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7892","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance, Clark Hoyt"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times’<\/i> woeful Public Editor\/apologist Clark Hoyt ends his three-year term at the “paper of record” today with a column in which he tries to shape his own legacy<\/a> as their (supposed) “readers’ representative.” There are, however, some 400,000 low and middle-income families across this nation, struggling to fight off, or emerge from, poverty who would might prefer to remember Hoyt by Tom Tomorrow’s recent immortalization<\/a> instead:<\/p>\n

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Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel today<\/a> notes that Hoyt’s farewell column reads as a dubious list of how the NYTimes<\/i>, during his tenure, continued to show its propensity for serving as a mouthpiece for GOP oppo-research teams and dirty tricksters.<\/p>\n

She also observes, as we did, that Hoyt succeeded in ignoring altogether — “to his significant discredit” — one of the most insidious and weasel-like failings of both the paper<\/a> and Hoyt himself<\/a> during his tenure: their dubious role as dupes and\/or useful mouthpieces for the phony, yet terribly destructive<\/a>, rightwing ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax scam”…<\/p>\n

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Then, finally, there’s the story that Hoyt doesn’t mention, to his significant discredit”\u201cthe ACORN Pimp Hoax. As BradBlog has relentlessly documented, the NYT not only reported James O’Keefe’s doctored lies as fact<\/a>, but Clark Hoyt himself scolded<\/a> the paper for not being more responsive to such tripe. It took six months<\/a> for the NYT to actually fact check the work of a transparent political propagandist and acknowledge that that propaganda presented a false picture”\u201cand they did so with little remorse at the damage they did in the interim.<\/div>\n

We heartily associate ourselves with Wheeler’s conclusion: “[I]t is a pity that a once-respectable journalist like Hoyt now clings to NYT’s credulous recycling of political hit jobs as proof of the paper’s balance.”<\/p>\n

As the New York Times<\/i>, after months of our detailed coverage, only ever managed to offer a partial<\/i> and begrudging correction<\/a> to their months-long misreportage — and even those corrections included blatant inaccuracies<\/a> — we can only hope that Hoyt’s successor, whoever it will be, takes as his or her first order of business an investigation of the investigator by launching a legitimate<\/i> look at the still-inaccurate historical account of the ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax as still<\/i> posted for posterity on the web by the once-great “paper of record.”<\/p>\n

New NYTimes<\/i> Public Editor: Please start here<\/a>. Feel free to contact us<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n

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